disdain: [14] Disdain comes via Old French desdeigner from *disdignāre, a Vulgar Latin alteration of Latin dēdignāri ‘scorn’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘un-, not’ and dignāre ‘consider worthy’ (source of English deign [13]). => dainty, deign, dignity
disdain (v.)
late 14c., from Old French desdeignier "disdain, scorn, refuse, repudiate," from des- "do the opposite of" (see dis-) + deignier "treat as worthy" (see deign). Related: Disdained; disdaining.
disdain (n.)
mid-14c., desdegne "scorn, contempt," earlier dedeyne "offended dignity" (c. 1300), from Old French desdeigne, from desdeignier (see disdain (v.)). Sometimes in early Modern English shortened to sdain, sdainful. Related: disdainful; disdainfully.
双语例句
1. She shared her daughter's disdain for her fellow countrymen.
她和女儿都瞧不起自己的同胞。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Janet looked at him with disdain.
珍妮特轻蔑地看着他。
来自柯林斯例句
3. to treat sb with disdain
鄙视某人
来自《权威词典》
4. I would certainly disdain to live in such tiny flats.